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May the God who is Abraham’s God and Nachor’s, the God of their common father✻ see justice done between us. Then Jacob swore by the God his father Isaac held in reverence, (Genesis 31, 53)
Jacob, too, set out to continue his journey, and as he went, God’s angels met him. (Genesis 32, 1)
And now he sent messengers of his own on before him, to greet his brother Esau in the country of Seir, which is Edom’s territory. (Genesis 32, 3)
These were his directions, You are to tell my lord Esau this, from his brother Jacob: I have been living abroad, on a visit to Laban, and am but just returned. (Genesis 32, 4)
And this was the news the messengers brought back with them, We found thy brother Esau; even now he comes hastening to meet thee, with four hundred men. (Genesis 32, 6)
At this, Jacob was overcome with terror, and in his extremity he divided up his followers, the flocks of sheep, too, and the cattle, and the camels, into two companies; (Genesis 32, 7)
If Esau, he thought, should meet with one company, and fall upon it, at least the other will come through safely. (Genesis 32, 8)
And now Jacob said, O God of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, thou, Lord, who hast bidden me return to my own country, the land of my birth, and hast offered to bless me, (Genesis 32, 9)
Save me now from the power of my brother Esau; I fear grievously that when he comes he will spare neither women nor children. (Genesis 32, 11)
When he had slept the night there, he chose out of all his possessions a present for his brother Esau, (Genesis 32, 13)
And to the first of these, his directions were, If thou shouldst encounter my brother Esau, and he should ask, Whose man art thou? or Whither goest thou? or Whose are these beasts thou tendest? (Genesis 32, 17)
thy answer is to be, They belong to thy servant Jacob, who is sending them as a present to my lord Esau; and he himself follows behind us. (Genesis 32, 18)
